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Title: Union Station
Date: 1974-11-15
Description: Photograph of Union Station's nearly empty Midway.

Title: Mike Shannon
Date: 1965-04-11
Description: Photograph of St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Mike Shannon in the batting cage.

Title: Grand Tower Dike and Revetment Work
Date: 1937-11-14
Description: November 14, 1937. - Source of stone for job (Tobin's Quarry).

Title: Difficulties of a Working General Among the Bayous
Date: 1863-04-11
Description: Bayou Navigation in Dixie.-From a sketch by Mr. Theodore R. Davis.-[See page 235.]

Title: Levee Construction and Equipment
Date: 1952-09-20
Description: Showing levee construction and Equipment, which is almost completed. Moving some of equipment out today. River in background is channel that was cut by flood last spring and it is to be re-routed into a new channel that the dredge is making the pilot canal for. Station 18+100'. Kansas City District, channel diversion.

Title: Kansas City Skyline from Ste. Genevieve
Date: 1952-10-20
Description: Approaching Kansas City while enroute from St. Joseph, Mo. To St. Louis. At right is dredge (William H. Black), which preceded us down river. Kansas City District.

Title: Evans Avenue
Date: 1959-02-10, 1959-02-11
Description: After the 1959 tornado, with walls sliced away, homes in multiple-family dwellings in the 3800 block of Evans Avenue are revealed in cross section. The buildings were badly damaged, their contects largely intact.

Title: Lady Linda
Date: 1953-06-11
Description: M/V (Lady Linda) passing service base.

Title: Mail Automat
Date: 1962-11-14, 1962-11-15
Description: Another bygone activity at Union Station: Railway mail service. A new automatic mail-sack handling system which saves $1,000,000 a year, displaces 175 jobs and speeds up mail distribution from trains at St. Louis' Union Station was dedicated Wednesday. Photo above shows the mail coming down hoppers to be dumped into chutes leading to trains.

Title: National Elimination Balloon Races Held at Priesters Park
Date: 1914-07-11
Description: Panoramic photograph depicting six racing balloons still tethered to the ground at the center of the racing track at Priesters Park. Spectators can be seen in the stands to the right and left. The race was presented by the Aero Club of St. Louis.

Title: Das Schwabenfest in St. Louis
Date: 1884-09-20
Description: Front page of Frank Leslie's Illustrirte Zeitung (Illustrated Newspaper) No. 1416 Vol. 55 from the 20th of September, 1884. There are illustrations of events from the Swabian Festival in St. Louis on the 31st of August and the 1st of September. There is also a passage from the book titled "Die Erbin von Saldern" ("The Heiress of Saldern") by Ewald August König above the illustrations. The events

Title: Letter from Zebulon Pike to Captain Daniel Bissell, June 11, 1806
Page From: info:fedora/umsl:39462
Date: 1806-06-11
Description: Letter from Zebulon Pike to Daniel Bissell in June of 1806 discussing military affairs and the maintaining of Pike's home.
Text: No 5 Bell Foutain. 11 June 1806. Dr. Sir Yours of the 28th June & 2� July was handed me by W. Nughz and shall be noticed in rotation, as in the first you are more than commonly complementary, but work me up after by the notice of my omission in not sending you a return of the Detachment but see here a plain tale will put you down. I was informed on my return, that all my Detachment
Show moreNo 5 Bell Foutain. 11 June 1806. Dr. Sir Yours of the 28th June & 2� July was handed me by W. Nughz and shall be noticed in rotation, as in the first you are more than commonly complementary, but work me up after by the notice of my omission in not sending you a return of the Detachment but see here a plain tale will put you down. I was informed on my return, that all my Detachment
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Title: Golden Eagle
Date: 1946-11-03
Description: GOLDEN EAGLE in mid-stream at New Orleans, La. Starting the return trip to St. Louis, Mo. November 3, 1946.

Title: Casoloma Ballroom, 1940
Date: 1940-01-20
Description: The Casoloma Ballroom, located at 3453 Iowa Street, lays covered in ice, January 20, 1940. The Casoloma suffered a fire, and after firefighter's put out the blaze, the dripping water froze in the cold winter temperatures. Donated to the St. Louis Mercantile Library by Norbert Rechtien.

Title: Ozzie Smith
Date: 1984-05-11
Description: Cardinals shortstop Ozzie Smith takes a relay from pitcher Joaquin Andujar to force Padres pitcher Tim Lollar at second in the third inning Thursday.

Title: American Railroad Journal November 10, 1849
Date: 1849-11-10, 1849-11-10

Title: American Railroad Journal November 17, 1849
Date: 1849-11-17, 1849-11-17

Title: American Railroad Journal November 3, 1849
Date: 1849-11-03, 1849-11-03

Title: American Railroad Journal November 24, 1849
Date: 1849-11-24, 1849-11-24

Title: Sp-Am War I
Date: 1949-11-06
Description: Long rated as one of the state's crack National Guard units, Light Battery A had its banner hanging from a tree to mark its camp ground and to guide visitors about the company's section in CampStephens.

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